<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<br><br>Kimberly Mueller here from UW Madison, using CHAT/CLAN (thank you!!!) to transcribe 5-10 minute language samples from adults ages 40 - 80 who are at risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease.<br><br>Would anyone (and/or everyone!) please provide guidance on measures you recommend to capture syntactic complexity? We have been segmenting utterances using the guidance in the CHAT manual (see below). Any help with codes/commands would also be appreciated!<br><br>Many thanks,<br>Kim<br><br><br><p>Utterance Manual for CHAT/CLAN </p><p><font size="1"><i>Utterances in CHAT/CLAN are separated using a T-unit classification. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>A T-unit consists of an independent clause and its corresponding depending clauses. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>An independent clause includes a subject and a verb. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>A dependent clause provides additional information to an independent clause, but it cannot stand by itself. </i></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="1"><i>For
example, if you were transcribing “I went to the store, but I didn’t
find anything to buy,” you would separate this into two utterances in
CHAT/CLAN. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>*PAR: I went to the store. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>*PAR: but I didn’t find anything to buy. </i></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="1"><i>Even
though these two parts go together in a sentence, they would be
separated into two utterances per the T-unit classification. </i></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="1"><i>An example of a dependent and independent clause would be as follows: </i></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="1"><i>*PAR: If I show up late the teacher will give me a tardy. </i></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="1"><i>In CHAT/CLAN, you also need to make a few judgement calls. </i></font></p><p><font size="1"><i>For
example, in speech, we often start sentences with “because.” “Because”
is typically at the beginning of a dependent clause in written
communication; however, we use this to start sentences when speaking and
thus a transcriber needs to decide whether the “because” is actually
starting the sentence in a spoken utterance. </i></font></p><br></div>
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